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Zorro

(15,749 posts)
Fri May 8, 2020, 10:01 PM May 2020

Trump flouts coronavirus protocols as security experts warn of need to protect president

Source: Washington Post

Trump flouts coronavirus protocols as security experts warn of need to protect president from a lethal threat

President Trump on Friday continued to eschew key public health guidelines from his own administration — meeting with Republican lawmakers and World War II veterans without a face mask — while expressing confidence that he is protected from the coronavirus despite a second White House staffer testing positive this week.

The president appeared puzzled that the aide, Katie Miller, the press secretary for Vice President Pence, had contracted the virus “out of the blue” after testing negative several times under a routine White House screening program put in place last month.

During the event with GOP members, Trump suggested “the whole concept of tests isn’t great,” but he declared that he was satisfied with the procedures that are in place to protect him and his top aides.

“I don’t worry about things. I do what I have to do,” said Trump, who this week resumed traveling with a visit to a manufacturing facility in Phoenix. “We’re dealing with an invisible situation. Nobody knows. All you can do is take precaution and do the best that you can.”

Read more: https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/trump-flouts-coronavirus-protocols-as-security-experts-warn-of-need-to-protect-president-from-a-lethal-threat/2020/05/08/3a6a9cec-9136-11ea-a9c0-73b93422d691_story.html

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Trump flouts coronavirus protocols as security experts warn of need to protect president (Original Post) Zorro May 2020 OP
If he didn't have the apparatus of the presidency protecting him, tanyev May 2020 #1
IT would wither and die without saidsimplesimon May 2020 #2
"I don't worrry about things" Skittles May 2020 #3
Ditto. nt iluvtennis May 2020 #6
Apparently he's worried... SergeStorms May 2020 #9
that's all he cares about Skittles May 2020 #10
Immaculate grammar, Skittles. SergeStorms May 2020 #25
Sadly so. ...nt 2naSalit May 2020 #12
Oh, keep flouting them, baby, keep flouting them ! Haggis for Breakfast May 2020 #4
Please proceed! machoneman May 2020 #22
Your move karma ....... jb5150 May 2020 #5
Come on, Karma, not a slap on the wrist this time. Jamastiene May 2020 #7
I've been thinking, gab13by13 May 2020 #8
LOL! n/t EndlessWire May 2020 #26
This was the same attitude Prime Minister Boris Johnson had. C Moon May 2020 #11
Fuck it then... wysi May 2020 #13
This might be the first choice that he's made that's good for America Orrex May 2020 #14
Good point. n/t. NNadir May 2020 #17
So the dummkopf gets tested justgamma May 2020 #15
There is no need to protect Trump; there is only a need to protect people from him muriel_volestrangler May 2020 #16
hoax, hoax noneof_theabove May 2020 #18
"Don't watch what I'm doing. Just listen to my bullshit." truthisfreedom May 2020 #19
And that's a problem? How? paleotn May 2020 #20
Not a mask to protect the orange pickle from the fickle finger of fate bucolic_frolic May 2020 #21
Nawh, he's probably got it or had it. Keep in mind that his physicians have access to all kinds.... machoneman May 2020 #23
Oh, just let him have his way. What could it possibly hurt ? nt eppur_se_muova May 2020 #24
Most of us EndlessWire May 2020 #27
So now he finally gets it? Initech May 2020 #28
He honestly thinks he's exempt from catching it Warpy May 2020 #29

tanyev

(42,627 posts)
1. If he didn't have the apparatus of the presidency protecting him,
Fri May 8, 2020, 10:07 PM
May 2020

he probably would have already contracted it. I’m sure he’s not doing one damn thing on his own to effectively protect himself.

saidsimplesimon

(7,888 posts)
2. IT would wither and die without
Fri May 8, 2020, 10:09 PM
May 2020

ego trips intended to get him away from staff and family. The risks are taken by others.

SergeStorms

(19,204 posts)
9. Apparently he's worried...
Fri May 8, 2020, 11:02 PM
May 2020

about getting re-elected. Very worried, judging by his non-stop "fuck up the government as much as I can" activities of late. And all of those 2:00 a.m. tweet tirades look like the telltale signs of a worrier as well.

Jamastiene

(38,187 posts)
7. Come on, Karma, not a slap on the wrist this time.
Fri May 8, 2020, 10:38 PM
May 2020

Trump said Obama should be hugging Ebola patients back then. Shouldn't Trump be out hugging 'Rona patients?

gab13by13

(21,413 posts)
8. I've been thinking,
Fri May 8, 2020, 10:53 PM
May 2020

people around Trump are testing positive but he tests negative, could the virus be hiding in the tumbleweed on his head?

Orrex

(63,225 posts)
14. This might be the first choice that he's made that's good for America
Sat May 9, 2020, 12:45 AM
May 2020

I applaud Mr. Trump for taking this bold and principled stand in a time of uncertainty. Let us watch in awe as a largely sedentary, obese septuagenarian fuckhead does everything in his power to contract a potentially fatal illness.

justgamma

(3,667 posts)
15. So the dummkopf gets tested
Sat May 9, 2020, 01:40 AM
May 2020

almost daily and tests negative. I just don't see the advantage of all those tests on one person. What do they do if one day he tests positive? Give him a tylenol?

muriel_volestrangler

(101,384 posts)
16. There is no need to protect Trump; there is only a need to protect people from him
Sat May 9, 2020, 02:48 AM
May 2020

which could be achieved in more than one way.

noneof_theabove

(410 posts)
18. hoax, hoax
Sat May 9, 2020, 07:36 AM
May 2020

Well leave him be and he can prove it is a hoax.

Once again he lets his alligator mouth overload his hummingbird ass.

truthisfreedom

(23,157 posts)
19. "Don't watch what I'm doing. Just listen to my bullshit."
Sat May 9, 2020, 07:48 AM
May 2020

“We’re dealing with an invisible situation. Nobody knows. All you can do is take precaution and do the best that you can.” Translation: “I’m invincible. I know what’s going on. I’m not wearing a stupid mask because they make you look like a dweeb and I’m not a dweeb. I need to meet with dictators and shit.”

bucolic_frolic

(43,332 posts)
21. Not a mask to protect the orange pickle from the fickle finger of fate
Sat May 9, 2020, 08:11 AM
May 2020

Tempt the gods. And don't linger.

machoneman

(4,012 posts)
23. Nawh, he's probably got it or had it. Keep in mind that his physicians have access to all kinds....
Sat May 9, 2020, 09:40 AM
May 2020

of drugs like the new remi-drug. That or his fav hydoxy drug.

EndlessWire

(6,570 posts)
27. Most of us
Sat May 9, 2020, 03:55 PM
May 2020

don't want to spend any money on protecting Trump. In fact, we are all sorta hoping, secretly, that...do you think that he realizes that most of his country hates his guts?

Where are our PPEs, tRumpy?

Warpy

(111,360 posts)
29. He honestly thinks he's exempt from catching it
Sun May 10, 2020, 04:04 AM
May 2020

because of the money he claims to have, the office he stole, and the Plaquenil he's been popping for two months, none of which offer any protection, at all, but he'll never listen to anyone who knows more than he does. Malignant narcissists have to know it all and anyone who points out that they don't become deadly enemies.

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